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chemgear · 06-11-2015, 06:11 PM

I wonder if this sort of thing will come up more and more as the City continues to discuss things like secondary suites.

http://calgary.ctvnews.ca/supersized...inch-1.2418297

Parking is at a premium in many parts of the city so some northeast residents have taken matters into their own hands and expanded their driveways across their entire yards.

An aerial survey of the communities of Saddleridge and Martindale found almost 250 of the ‘unidriveways’, which did not come as a surprise to those living nearby.

“It is a big problem because, it’s spreading. I know it’s not just my ward now but through my ward, I’ve got a number of areas where we’re really concerned about it and the fact that people are paving or cementing over city property, that they have no right to do that, we take that pretty seriously. We have a right-of-way across their lawn, and that right-of-way has to be maintained as a surface that the water can go through and drain into and so on, so we’re taking action on it and there’s a cross-unit task force set up here within the city, because it affects a lot of different departments. It affects water, it affects roads, it affects parking, so some of the homeowners have been served notice that they have to remove them or we’ll go in and remove them and more of them will be served in the future,” said Stevenson.

06-11-2015, 06:11 PM	#139
chemgear Franchise Player Join Date: Feb 2010 Exp:	I wonder if this sort of thing will come up more and more as the City continues to discuss things like secondary suites. http://calgary.ctvnews.ca/supersized...inch-1.2418297 Parking is at a premium in many parts of the city so some northeast residents have taken matters into their own hands and expanded their driveways across their entire yards. An aerial survey of the communities of Saddleridge and Martindale found almost 250 of the ‘unidriveways’, which did not come as a surprise to those living nearby. “It is a big problem because, it’s spreading. I know it’s not just my ward now but through my ward, I’ve got a number of areas where we’re really concerned about it and the fact that people are paving or cementing over city property, that they have no right to do that, we take that pretty seriously. We have a right-of-way across their lawn, and that right-of-way has to be maintained as a surface that the water can go through and drain into and so on, so we’re taking action on it and there’s a cross-unit task force set up here within the city, because it affects a lot of different departments. It affects water, it affects roads, it affects parking, so some of the homeowners have been served notice that they have to remove them or we’ll go in and remove them and more of them will be served in the future,” said Stevenson.